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No official statistics are kept for the number of hospital patients, in particular older people, who are subjected to neglect and abuse. That is, left malnourished and dehydrated, in pain, allowed to develop agonising and fatal pressure sores, not taken to the toilet, left to lie in their own bodily waste, cared for in a filthy environment and at risk of infection, ignored, allowed to fall over repeatedly, not spoken to, left naked or dressed in other patients' clothes – and discharged from...

This short guide cuts through the confusing mass of legislation to provide a concise and jargon-free explanation of current community care practice and the law. In clear and simple language, it explains the legislation directly relevant to practitioners, including: rules about how people in need get an assessment from local authorities; the assessment of need itself; eligibility for actually getting a service (and the «fair access to care» policy); charging for services; ordinary residence;...

The safeguarding of vulnerable adults continues to increase in importance. Safeguarding Adults and the Law, now in its second edition, sets this complex area of work within an extensive legal framework and provides many useful pointers for practitioners and students. The book covers, for example, Department of Health guidelines, human rights, the regulation of health and social care providers, the barring of carers from working with vulnerable adults, care standards tribunal cases, mental...

"Forgive state poet #289-128 / for not scribbling illusions / of trickery as if timeless hell / could be captured by stanzas / alliteration or slant rhyme," remarks the speaker, Maryland Department of Corrections prisoner {#289-128}, early in this haunting collection. Three sections – {#289-128} Property of the State, {#289-128} Poet-in-Residence (Cell 23), and {#289-128} Poet in New York – frame the countless ways in which the narrator's body and life are socially and legally rendered...

Die Rückabwicklung der sog. Bauträger-Altfälle nach dem Urteil des BFH vom 22.08.2013 (Az. V R 37/10) hat in den letzten Jahren sowohl Rechtsprechung als auch Literatur in höchstem Maße beschäftigt. Die entstandenen Problemfelder sind gekennzeichnet durch vielfältige Konflikte zwischen fiskalischen Interessen und dem dringenden Wunsch nach Rechtssicherheit auf Seiten der Baubranche. Trotz hoher praktischer Relevanz erfolgte bislang keine umfassende Aufarbeitung der insolvenzrechtlichen...